Show J Ji i jr 8 TENDENCY TO CRIMINALITY By Dy DR FRANS ALEJANDER ALEANDER Berlin Psychoanalyst st st. f All children if free to respond to their instinctive impulses would act as criminals Js Instead of th the popular lar conception that it is natural I to to be a law law-a law abiding citizen mental science has has- shown shO th that t people are born criminals I Distin Distinction tion must be e made ad between hd the chronically criminal and the accidentally criminal as the former class is incapable of ref reform rm by a amere a M. M mere change o environment of-environment but treatment r requires quires medical The fhe tendency tend- tend t one ency to crimin criminality is a acquired d in th the conflicts of childhood between the natural impulses chiefly e love and nd hunger and nd soci society ty It is often impossible impossible sible sible t to find any ly ratio rational motives for the behavior of the chronically criminal Punishment has no deterrent effect on the neurotic criminal ex excepting excepting except except- epting ept- ept ing to stimulate him in an opposite diree direction OJ from that desired An individual individual indi indi- vidual of this tIJi type after atter punishment feels he be has has expiated expiated Ills his crime and rand randis andis is encouraged to o commit new new nets offenses |